Treatment of Chronic Pain by Integrative Approaches

Timothy S. Deer, MD Editor-in-Chief President and CEO The Center for Pain Relief Charleston, WV USA Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology West Virginia University School of Medicine Charleston, WV USA   Michael S. Leong, MD Associate Editor-in-Chief Clinic Chief Stanford Pain Management Center Redwood City, CA USA Clinical Assistant Professor Department of Anesthesiology Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford, CA USA   Albert L. Ray, MD Associate Editor, Integrative Approaches Medical Director The LITE Center South Miami, FL USA Clinical Associate Professor University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Miami, FL USA

1. Pain as a Perceptual Experience.- 2. Neuroplasticity, Sensitization, and Pain.- 3. Muscle Pain Treatment.- 4. Addictive Disorders and Pain.- 5. The “Five-Minute” Mental Status Examination of Persons with Pain.- 6. The Psychological Assessment of Patients with Chronic Pain.- 7. Psychological Therapies.- 8. Billing Psychological Services for Patients with Chronic Pain.- 9. Hypnosis and Pain Control.- 10. Acupuncture.- 11. Manual Therapies.- 12. Treatment of Chronic Painful Musculoskeletal Injuries and Diseases with Regenerative Injection Therapy (RIT): Regenerative Injection Therapy Principles and Practice.- 13. Interdisciplinary Functional Restoration and Pain Programs.- 14. Pain and Spirituality.- 15. Pain Disparity: Assessment and Traditional Medicine.- 16. Sleep and Chronic Pain.- 17. Empowerment: A Pain Caregiver’s Perspective.- 18. Patient and Caregiver’s Perspective.- 19. Pain Medicine in Older Adults: How Should It Differ?.- 20. Pain Medicine and Primary Care: The Evolutionof a Population-Based Approach to Chronic Pain as a Public Health Problem.- 21. Pain Care Beyond the Medical Practice Office: Utilizing Patient Advocacy, Education, and Support Organizations.- 22. Neonatal Pain.- 23. Assessing Disability in the Pain Patient.- 24. The Double Effect: In Theory and in Practice.- 25. Failure to Treat Pain.